Ardour is a digital audio workstation that runs natively on OS X. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows...

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo,More...

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Ardour is a digital audio workstation that runs natively on OS X. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video soundtracks. Experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Generate sound installations for 12 speaker gallery shows...

Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs (even some leading commercial apps) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms.

Version 3.5.308:

Additions and Changes:

add visualization of signal flow within tracks and busses

Various improvements to panning

add stereo-balance panner

right click on panner to select a different (compatible) paner

major overhaul to VBAP panner so that it works

panner GUI tweaks

Sends now have their own panner

Send panner may be (un)linked with the main panner via the context menu of the send. If linked, the send's panning follows the main panner.

Various improvements to import and auditioning

Add MIDI auditioning (using Ardour's builtin "reasonableSynth")

Consider all tracks in a MIDI (SMF) file

allow auditioning via the monitor section to work (and make it the default when using a monitor section)

add a seek/locate slider to the import auditioner

auditioning now uses sample rate conversion when necessary, so that auditioned files are always played back at the correct pitch/speed

Fixes and Improvements:

do not lock audio to video when extracting only the audio from a video file